By Gary Martin
Gary B. Martin is an illustrator and animator who has lived on the Upper West Side for more than 30 years. His illustrations appear in the Rag on Sundays, chronicling life in the neighborhood, New York City, and the Universe. See them all here. For a broader range of Gary’s work, including animations and other motion graphics, please visit www.martoons.com
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lol!
I’m forwarding this to my daughter, who just moved to the UWS – Wash Heights, more precise – and now deals with this on a daily basis. Good analogy.
Wash nights isn’t the upper west side. Two very different neighborhoods.
Lol!! You nailed it, Mr. G!
HAHAHA! (and aaaaaaaah). Thanks Gary!
Never played Tetris but parking apps are awful!
That game is no fun at all.
And then it doesn’t take your credit card!
Exactly!
Haha! So true
Too funny! I love it.
Laughing through my pain.
All the game app playing in the world couldn’t help me park a car in the city!
Would that it were just a game and not random, evil luck…
Yup! Yup! 😠
Jeebers!
Time to take away City cars from City Workers and revoke their parking permits.
Let them live like the rest of us .
Never thought I’d miss an old school parking meter.
What’s going on with the parking rules? (Don’t have a car)
As a car owner (we had to get one when we got married upstate) navigating Alternate Side Parking Tetris (TM), this hits HARD.
Well done as always, Gary!
LOL! You got it!
Lol–this looks easier than the reality of parking up here!
hahahaha